Richard Gayle points to this extraordinary video of the lyrebird which can imitate other birds but also cameras (standard and motor-drive), car alarms and chainsaws.
UPDATE: Chris Corrigan emailed me with a link to a moonwalking bird.
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges
Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in
I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big
In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason
I really enjoy Chris Rodgers’ views on leadership. He argues against the assumption that it takes great leadership for organisations to succeed. He suggests that
Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like
I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Well now you need wonder no more. A friend told me about this (no, seriously… my Feedster feed on improvisation turned it up). Is it
Here’s an interesting site I stumbled upon yesterday: v-flyer.com, a customer-owned site about Virgin Atlantic with over 200,000 unique visitors a month. This is how it describes itself: Welcome to
Welcome to the Ourhouse Weblog. Blogging is something I’ve become increasingly interested in. Earlier this month I set up the Beyond Branding Blog which is written with several of my
Richard Oliver spotted this from Mary Catherine Bateson: Biologists used to talk about the fact that human beings are what is called neotenous which is to say that we never
Simon Gough tweeted: For every high-profile project there are ten better versions quietly getting on with it which strikes me as poetically true if not always literally so. I see
